reply to post by Candycab
Yes... a PILOT watching over them. I am a pilot with years of both fixed and rotary wing experience.
I have also spent probably hundreds of hours with airliner flight simulators and I can tell you there is absolutely no way anyone that is not a
commercial ATP pilot with type-certification on a heavy multi-engine jet that could land it.
Never mind the fact that there is panic, dead bodies, blood, fighting, etc.
Who exactly is going to tell you what to do? Air Traffic controllers don't know how to fly 757s.
How will you talk to somebody? Where is the radio? What channel do you use? Which button do you push to turn on autopilot? How do you push any
button when the plane is in a spin/dive with positive and negative G forces flinging you around?
I think you have been watching too many AIRPLANE movies.
It's true that some modern jetliners have autoland procedures, however they have to be programmed in the Flight Management Computer with the specific
runway assignment/airport/approach pattern.. etc.
Then the Flight Director, Flight Management Computer, Autopilot and nav system all have to be coupled.
All that aside... how do you even know where you are?
Take a look at this picture and tell me (even without dead bodies, blood, terrorists, spinning/diving G forces) and let me know what button you would
push first to land the plane.
Exactly.
You can't.
Never in history has an untrained pilot landed a jetliner by him or herself relying on instructions from air traffic control.
Ever.
